Monday, 28 September 2015

Challenges Faced by Testers during Testing Cycle

In the past decade, software
development has made a huge progress in the future direction. However, the
scenario is not as good when it comes to the testing of the software.
Statistical survey shows that the budget of the IT industry has increased from
18% to 26% in a span of two years, but the budget allotted to the testing
departments is not even close to satisfaction. Marked development is needed in
this field in order to ensure good software for the customers.

Agile
Development: According to the statistics, 93% of the companies
prefer agile development method of software testing as compared to 83% of them
in 2013. This method requires a new set of skills and view as it has less
documentation and faster methods of testing the software. Automation has made
marked progress and is the best choice for regression testing which has mounted
up. Testers are being reduced to advocates of the end users.

Mobile Technology:
With the advent of smart phones, the internet is being accessed majorly through
them. Loads of apps are beings developed for these small platforms. This has
shifted the testing industry from software to mobile app testing realm. This
has reduced the focus off of the pure manual testing of software. The testers,
while testing mobile application requires a varied set of skills in order to
handle the job of the small platforms. The traditional software testing
protocol is being replaced.

Big Data:
Gathering and sorting out data is looming big in the software industries these
days. Each and every IT company gathers a huge amount of data, but not all can
analyze it or check the validity of these data and use the results for future
benefit. However, the real trick behind the accumulation and analysis of the
data lies in the fact as to how well you have extracted the data and how error
free it is. Dealing with such a huge amount of data and storing the same in a
beneficial manner is appearing to be a huge challenge.

Cloud
Access: With the emergence of cloud computing, people are hugely
relying on it, majorly due to the ease of access to the data stored in the
cloud. People are always on the go, and they need to access their data on
multiple devices and it has been made possible due to cloud computing. However,
moving software testing to the clouds is posing to be a huge challenge,
especially on the security and performance front as there is a huge chance of
security breach along with loss of data.

Lack of
Resources: This is one of the most brooding challenges that the
testers face. Lack of resources results in incomplete testing of the software
or tests which are not up to the mark of the quality provided by the company,
ultimately resulting in dissatisfied customers. If these lacks of resources are
combined with the lack of training, then the yield is even more disastrous.
Optimum resource is required for proper usability, security, and performance
testing.

These are the most jarring
challenges which are being faced by the software testers every day, during test
cycles. To get improved results from the software testing
processes, organizations should pay heed to these challenges and try solving
these challenges.

2 comments:

I think you meant lack of resources as the lack of useful information to allow testers to make more effective test cases and, therefore, a test plan.

Another big challenge the actual testers are having with Agile is the principle of change it has. An automation tester has to be ready for any impending change that could compromise the work on the automated suites due to big changes on the framework.

At this point several testers could rely more in the capacity of analysis in order to be more proactive in the teams and be capable to suggest solutions and be involved in earlier phases of the software development process, this could allow tester to begin clearing the path of a good quality process.